International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 14 Issue 3

Investigation of forced convective heat transfer enhancement in the presence of an electric field – a finite element analysis

Asish Bandyopadhyay, Swarnendu Sen, Amitava Sarkar, Souvik Bhattacharyya

The effect of electro‐convection in a cylindrical flow annulus on heat transfer enhancement has been investigated numerically. Weakly ionized air is considered to be the working…

Application of a non‐linear k‐ε model in prediction of convective heat transfer through ribbed passages

M. Raisee, A. Noursadeghi, H. Iacovides

A numerical investigation has been undertaken to study fluid flow and heat transfer through artificially rib‐roughened channels. Such flows are of particular interest in internal…

The computation of flow and heat transfer through square‐ended U‐bends, using low‐Reynolds‐number models

Konstantinos‐Stephen P. Nikas, Hector Iacovides

This study is concerned with the computation of turbulent flow and heat transfer in U‐bends of strong curvature. Following the earlier studies within the authors' group on flows…

The influence of the order of fill‐in on the convergence rate for ILU preconditioned iterative solvers

S.Ø. Wille, Ø. Staff, A.F.D. Loula, G.F. Carey

The indefinite nature of the mixed finite element formulation of the Navier‐Stokes equations is treated by segregation of the variables. The segregation algorithm assembles the…

Analysis of liquid‐lubricated herringbone grooved journal bearings

T.S. Lee, Y.G. Liu, S.H. Winoto

Numerical studies are carried out to investigate the liquid‐lubricated herringbone‐grooved journal bearings (HGJBs) performance (such as the pressure and cavitation distribution…

Aeroelastic analysis of turbomachinery: Part I – phase lagged boundary condition methods

R. Srivastava, M.A. Bakhle, K T.G., G.L. Stefko

In this two‐part paper, aeroelastic analysis of turbomachinery blade rows and phase‐lagged boundary conditions used for analysis are described. Part I of the paper describes a…

Aeroelastic analysis of turbomachinery: Part II – stability computations

R. Srivastava, M.A. Bakhle, K T.G., D. Hoyniak

Part II of the two‐part paper describes an aeroelastic analysis program and its application for stability computations of turbomachinery blade rows. Unsteady Euler or…